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Towards an engaged university in the periphery: Innovation, regional development and institutional change
The increasing visibility of the impact of various societal challenges, such as climate change, territorial disparity, income inequality and demographic change, has brought the role of innovation to the fore of academic and policy debates. Universities are increasingly expected to mobilise their resources to address these societal challenges through innovation, thereby contributing to regional development. Such expectations are particularly high in peripheral regions generally characterised as having a weak institutional landscape. The complex nature of societal challenges, however, pushes universities to diversify the scope of innovation-related third mission activities. This requires moving beyond traditional regional engagement modes such as technology transfer and industry collaboration towards engaging with other types of innovation (e.g., social) and societal partners (e.g., municipalities and citizens) as well. This is a transformation from mainly an economically oriented third mission ingrained within the entrepreneurial university to a new one involving socially, environmentally and culturally oriented regional engagement as well, which generally manifests within the engaged university model. While the relevant literature has advanced understanding of the way universities can become engaged, the insights have largely been limited to the context of core regions. This thesis therefore aims to explore the extent to which higher education institutions located in peripheral regions can achieve adopting the engaged model and more importantly, how a transformation from the entrepreneurial to the engaged university takes place in such regions. Here, transformation from the entrepreneurial to the engaged university is conceptualised as an institutional change process, which is further scrutinised through the following three research questions: i) What are the characteristics of individual and organisational efforts geared towards transformation into an engaged university in a peripheral region? ii) Under what ...
Towards an engaged university in the periphery: Innovation, regional development and institutional change
The increasing visibility of the impact of various societal challenges, such as climate change, territorial disparity, income inequality and demographic change, has brought the role of innovation to the fore of academic and policy debates. Universities are increasingly expected to mobilise their resources to address these societal challenges through innovation, thereby contributing to regional development. Such expectations are particularly high in peripheral regions generally characterised as having a weak institutional landscape. The complex nature of societal challenges, however, pushes universities to diversify the scope of innovation-related third mission activities. This requires moving beyond traditional regional engagement modes such as technology transfer and industry collaboration towards engaging with other types of innovation (e.g., social) and societal partners (e.g., municipalities and citizens) as well. This is a transformation from mainly an economically oriented third mission ingrained within the entrepreneurial university to a new one involving socially, environmentally and culturally oriented regional engagement as well, which generally manifests within the engaged university model. While the relevant literature has advanced understanding of the way universities can become engaged, the insights have largely been limited to the context of core regions. This thesis therefore aims to explore the extent to which higher education institutions located in peripheral regions can achieve adopting the engaged model and more importantly, how a transformation from the entrepreneurial to the engaged university takes place in such regions. Here, transformation from the entrepreneurial to the engaged university is conceptualised as an institutional change process, which is further scrutinised through the following three research questions: i) What are the characteristics of individual and organisational efforts geared towards transformation into an engaged university in a peripheral region? ii) Under what ...
Towards an engaged university in the periphery: Innovation, regional development and institutional change
Çınar, Ridvan (Autor:in)
01.01.2022
cristin:1997086
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Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Governance, institutional change and regional development
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